Leslie "String" Garner's new occupation couldn't get much further from the battlefields of Vietnam and Borneo.

Sloth, torpor, idleness. Forget the negative connotations, for it turns out they might actuallybe good for us. Kate Bussmann managed to put down her iPad and allowed her mind to wander for the purposes of research.

This latest novel by the prolific Richard Powers may be summarised very briefly.

Q&A with Sophia Amoruso, the CEO of online fashion site Nasty Gal and author of the new book #GIRLBOSS.

JK Rowling’s next novel includes a shady journalist and a not-so-subtle attack on phone-hacking.

A One Direction fan's erotic online fiction about her fantasy romance with singer Harry Styles has been commissioned into a series of novels by a major publisher.

If anyone epitomised the Anzac Spirit at the Australia and New Zealand Literary Festival in London last weekend, it was Clive James.

Growing up on navy bases, Laini Taylor always wanted to write. She tells David Larsen about the blue-haired girl with an unusual collection who helped her realise her ambition.

Una has lung cancer, and just days to live. "I have friends and family ... I have money.

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day a book seeks to win recognition for young flyers who bravely took the fight to the enemy

Some people never write a book. Now Grumpy Cat has written two.

As storms of outrage go, it was mild. It barely caused a ripple.

Amazon and Hachette Book Group are widely believed to be bickering over e-book pricing and whether Amazon can get bigger discounts for Hachette books.

Swiss writer Joel Dicker’s literary crime novel has taken Europe by storm. Now it’s out in English, and may be the creepiest, cleverest book you’ll read all year.

Vincent O’Sullivan, the New Zealand Poet Laureate, has written numerous collections of poetry, short stories, plays and critical works.

Graeme Lay's sequel to his best-selling novel, The Secret Life of James Cook, wisely follows the same approach as before.

New Zealand foodies have taken out culinary royalty like Jamie Oliver, Neil Perry and Oprah Winfrey's personal chef to win at the world's biggest cookbook awards.

Students' needs increasingly met online but printed books still seen as key

Three important writers, all women over 65, were given separate standing ovations yesterday at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Three Australians – cartoonist Michael Leunig, writer John Marsden and artist Rod Moss – chewed over the question of whether their homeland is “The Lucky Country”.

What a treat to see Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith in his packed-out Saturday session.

Perky Cambridge-based explorer and historian Huw Lewis-Jones blew some much-needed levity into the day.